Codebook for Beazer, Crabtree, Fariss, and Kern's "Censorship by Russian private media firms: Evidence from a correspondence experiment" (forthcoming in BJPS).


Variables contained in the dat.outcomes dataframe:
N = 953


location								city in which media firm is located.
region									region in which media firm is located.
general									general or specialized media outlet.
percentage_of_links_from_rus_domains	Percentage of links to the site from RUS domains.
alexa_global_rank_percent				site's Alexa Global rank.
alexa_reach_rank_percent				site's Alexa reach rank.
Tr										Treatment indicator.
accept 									outcome variable (see paper for definition).
reject 									outcome variable (see paper for definition).
price_list 								outcome variable (see paper for definition).
distance_to_moscow 						Distance from media firm's address to Moscow in km.
block 									Block indicator for blocked treatment assignment.
media_pro_speech 						media bias variable (see paper for coding).
media_anti_speech 						media bias variable (see paper for coding).
media_neutral_speech 					media bias variable (see paper for coding).
acceptprice 							outcome variable (see paper for definition).
rejectnoreply							outcome variable (see paper for definition).
posrequest 								outcome variable (see paper for definition).
negrequest 								outcome variable (see paper for definition).
noreply 								outcome variable (see paper for definition).
maincity 								Indicator for firms located in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
mr.count.city 							Count of repressive events at the city level in 2012-13. Data are from Glasnost Defense
										Foundation.
mr.count.region 						Count of repressive events at the region level in 2012-13. Data are from Glasnost Defense
										Foundation.
reg_pop 								2013 region-level population size. Data are from ICSID.
reg_media 								2013 citizen satisfaction with executive authorities' transparency. Data are from ICSID.
reg_ur2007 								Percentage of votes for United Russia in 2007 Duma elections. Data are from ICSID.
reg_ur2011								Percentage of votes for United Russia in 2011 Duma elections. Data are from ICSID.
speech_imp								Proportion of regional respondents who consider freedom of speech to be among the
										most important rights. Georating 2010 data.
speech_have 							Proportion of regional respondents who believe they definitely have freedom of
										information. Georating 2010 data.
info_imp 								Proportion of regional respondents who consider freedom of information to be among
 										the most important rights. Georating 2010 data.
info_have 								Proportion of regional respondents who believe they definitely have freedom of
										information. Georating 2010 data.
net_news 								Proportion of regional respondents who use the internet to get news. Georating 2010 data.
net_forum								Proportion of regional respondents who use the internet to talk on forums / connect with
										groups. Georating 2010 data.
net_nohome 								Proportion of regional respondents who do not have the internet at home. Georating 2010
										data.
news_net 								Proportion of regional respondents who most often use get their news/info from the
										internet. Georating 2010 data.
app_medvedev 							Proportion of regional respondents who think President Medvedev is doing a good job.
										Georating 2010 data.
app_putin 								Proportion of regional respondents who think Prime Minister Putin is doing a good job.
										Georating 2010 data.


hl3										helper function for formatting tables.


Tr.rand 								Dataframe of 100,000 randomized blocked treatment assignments for randomization
										inference.






